HyperDic is a hyper-dictionary based on WordNet 2.1. This version links 147,249 word forms.
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| Shopping | The largest selection of USANCE products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| NOUN | 1 | usance | The period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange) |
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| 2 | usance, consumption, economic consumption, use, use of goods and services | (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing | |
| 3 | usance, custom, usage | Accepted or habitual practice |
| Meaning | The period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange). |
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| Category | commerce, commercialism, mercantilism |
| Broader | time period, period of time, period |
| Meaning | (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing. |
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| Synonyms | consumption, economic consumption, use, use of goods and services |
| Category | economics, economic science, political economy |
| Broader | demand |
| Narrower | conspicuous consumption |
| Meaning | Accepted or habitual practice. |
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| Synonyms | custom, usage |
| Broader | practice, pattern; survival |
| Narrower | Americanism; Anglicism, Britishism; consuetude; couvade; Germanism; habit, use, wont; hijab; ritual, rite |
| Verbs | use |
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